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This book should've been up my alley, but I couldn't get into it. The perspective changed between Rielle (the past) and Eliana (the present). Unfortunately most of the time, their voices were very similar and I had trouble switching gears to get into the other's narrative. While they took place in the same universe, it felt like two different books to me. The prologue basically ruined any surprises that would've happened in Eliana's narrative, but I'm not sure if the author wanted it to be a surprise. I think I would have preferred the book to have been divided into two parts, the first to be Rielle's and the second to be Eliana's instead of having the alternating chapters. They didn't mesh anyways and it would've helped the story flow better.
There wasn't much in their personalities that kept me enraptured in the story. It might have been the jarring switching between characters that broke my focus. I would usually read a chapter or two at a time, and never really experienced any binges where I really got into the story. Since I wasn't vested in the story it was pretty hard for me to care about what was going on. I liked Rielle's story better than Eliana's but once the trails started I didn't care as much anymore. How many stories have we seen with constructed trials of some sort of to test the mettle of the main character? It just seemed a silly context to me.
I was happy to be finally done with it. It took me a month to finally finish and I'm not that curious about the next books. I'm not really sure what would happen in the next one because she didn't set up any cliffhangers. I'm sure it'll be about defeating Corien, but I don't care that much.
There wasn't much in their personalities that kept me enraptured in the story. It might have been the jarring switching between characters that broke my focus. I would usually read a chapter or two at a time, and never really experienced any binges where I really got into the story. Since I wasn't vested in the story it was pretty hard for me to care about what was going on. I liked Rielle's story better than Eliana's but once the trails started I didn't care as much anymore. How many stories have we seen with constructed trials of some sort of to test the mettle of the main character? It just seemed a silly context to me.
I was happy to be finally done with it. It took me a month to finally finish and I'm not that curious about the next books. I'm not really sure what would happen in the next one because she didn't set up any cliffhangers. I'm sure it'll be about defeating Corien, but I don't care that much.